An off-duty New York City
police officer has been charged with firing her service revolver into a Mercedes-Benz
following an altercation at a High Tor Drive home early Wednesday morning. /
File photo
Written by
Mike Deak
WATCHUNG — An off-duty New York
City police officer has been charged with firing her service revolver into a
Mercedes-Benz following an altercation at a High Tor Drive home early Wednesday
morning.
Wanda Anthony, 43, of Staten
Island, N.Y., is free after posting $60,000 bail on charges of aggravated
assault, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose and driving while
intoxicated.
Borough police responded to the
home at about 3:30 a.m. Wednesday on a report of shots fired, Somerset County
Prosecutor Geoffrey Soriano said.
A male resident of the home and
a woman told police that Anthony was intoxicated and had become involved in an
argument, according to an affidavit filed Thursday in Superior Court.
Anthony had been out earlier in
the evening with the man and had returned with him to his home when an argument
between Anthony and another woman broke out, Soriano said.
When Anthony was asked to
leave, she left through the garage after grabbing some bottles of wine, the
affidavit said.
When they heard the sound of
breaking glass, the man and woman went outside to investigate. The woman told
police that she saw Anthony get out of her car, a white Cadillac, with a
handgun and threaten them, saying she would return with her “boys,” the
affidavit said.
After the man and woman ran
into the house, they heard a single gunshot.
Police found a bullet hole in
the rear driver side window of the man’s Mercedes-Benz, Soriano said. The
bullet had become embedded in the car’s frame by the passenger compartment.
A casing matching the bullet
was found in the driveway, Soriano said. That casing matched Anthony’s 9mm
Smith and Wesson gun, the affidavit said.
After being given a description
of Anthony’s car, officers stopped it and performed a high-risk motor vehicle
stop, Soriano said.
After Anthony told the Watchung
authorities that she was an officer with the New York Police Department, she
refused to take a field sobriety test and was arrested for drunken driving,
Soriano said.